Volunteers with the annual Iowa River Cleanup unload a canoe of litter collected Saturday from the Iowa River at Hills Access.

Written by

Aly Brown
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

Tires, bicycle wheels, pop bottles, broken glass, whole cars: these items may sound like an inventory of the Iowa City Landfill, but they are only a smattering of the trash that volunteers fished out of the Iowa River on Saturday.

About 70 Annual Iowa River Clean-Up volunteers floated 9.5 miles down the Iowa River in canoes from Sturgis Ferry Park in Iowa City to Hills Access.

Carol Sweeting, city of Iowa City volunteer coordinator, said by 1 p.m. that volunteers had found close to 100 tires in the water and along its banks. ...